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Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively
Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Jiajie Jin +9
Large language models have evolved from single-turn chatbots into interactive agents capable of long-horizon reasoning. In real deployments, MCP tool services can return noisy feed…
WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search
Xiaoshuai Song, Liancheng Zhang, Kangzhi Zhao +8
Large language model (LLM)-based web search agents are transforming information seeking from simple factoid question answering into complex, deep-and-wide search and research-orien…
VeriGraph: Towards Verifiable Data-Analytic Agents
Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao +5
LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes the…
Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement
Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu +15
Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction. Researchers test candidate directions, interpret the evidence, and carry the result…
Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation
Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents from deep search, which retrieves concise factual answers, to deep research, which synthesizes scattered evidence into…
Swarm Skills: A Portable, Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System Specification for Coordination Engineering
Xinyu Zhang, Zhicheng Dou, Deyang Li +10
As artificial intelligence engineering paradigms shift from single-agent Prompt and Context Engineering toward multi-agent \textbf{Coordination Engineering}, the ability to codify…
TimelineReasoner: Advancing Timeline Summarization with Large Reasoning Models
Liancheng Zhang, Xiaoxi Li, Zhicheng Dou
The proliferation of online news poses a challenge to extracting structured timelines from unstructured content. While recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) c…
LaSER: Internalizing Explicit Reasoning into Latent Space for Dense Retrieval
Jiajie Jin, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li +4
LLMs have fundamentally transformed dense retrieval, upgrading backbones from discriminative encoders to generative architectures. However, a critical disconnect remains: while LLM…
e5-omni: Explicit Cross-modal Alignment for Omni-modal Embeddings
Haonan Chen, Sicheng Gao, Radu Timofte +2
Modern information systems often involve different types of items, e.g., a text query, an image, a video clip, or an audio segment. This motivates omni-modal embedding models that…
Towards Mixed-Modal Retrieval for Universal Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang +1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant documents from an external corpus. However…
FinSight: Towards Real-World Financial Deep Research
Jiajie Jin, Yuyao Zhang, Yimeng Xu +3
Generating professional financial reports is a labor-intensive and intellectually demanding process that current AI systems struggle to fully automate. To address this challenge, w…
UniGist: Towards General and Hardware-aligned Sequence-level Long Context Compression
Chenlong Deng, Zhisong Zhang, Kelong Mao +6
Large language models are increasingly capable of handling long-context inputs, but the memory overhead of key-value (KV) cache remains a major bottleneck for general-purpose deplo…
P3: Prompts Promote Prompting
Xinyu Zhang, Yuanquan Hu, Fangchao Liu +1
Current large language model (LLM) applications often employ multi-component prompts, comprising both system and user prompts, to guide model behaviors. While recent advancements h…
Measuring Human Involvement in AI-Generated Text: A Case Study on Academic Writing
Yuchen Guo, Zhicheng Dou, Huy H. Nguyen +3
Content creation has dramatically progressed with the rapid advancement of large language models like ChatGPT and Claude. While this progress has greatly enhanced various aspects o…
Tool-Star: Empowering LLM-Brained Multi-Tool Reasoner via Reinforcement Learning
Guanting Dong, Yifei Chen, Xiaoxi Li +7
Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL). However, leveraging the RL algorithm to empower eff…
Single LLM, Multiple Roles: A Unified Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework Using Role-Specific Token Optimization
Yutao Zhu, Jiajie Jin, Hongjin Qian +3
Existing studies have optimized retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) across various sub-tasks, such as query understanding and retrieval refinement, but integrating these optimizat…
Hierarchical Document Refinement for Long-context Retrieval-augmented Generation
Jiajie Jin, Xiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong +6
Real-world RAG applications often encounter long-context input scenarios, where redundant information and noise results in higher inference costs and reduced performance. To addres…
WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
Xiaoxi Li, Jiajie Jin, Guanting Dong +5
Large reasoning models (LRMs), such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, demonstrate impressive long-horizon reasoning capabilities. However, their reliance on static internal knowledge l…
CAReDiO: Cultural Alignment via Representativeness and Distinctiveness Guided Data Optimization
Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jindong Wang +2
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed across diverse regions, aligning them with pluralistic cultures is crucial for improving user engagement and mitigating cultural confli…
CoRanking: Collaborative Ranking with Small and Large Ranking Agents
Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior listwise ranking performance. However, their superior performance often relies on large-scale parameters (\eg, GPT-4) and a…
A Silver Bullet or a Compromise for Full Attention? A Comprehensive Study of Gist Token-based Context Compression
Chenlong Deng, Zhisong Zhang, Kelong Mao +4
In this work, we provide a thorough investigation of gist-based context compression methods to improve long-context processing in large language models. We focus on two key questio…
Progressive Multimodal Reasoning via Active Retrieval
Guanting Dong, Chenghao Zhang, Mengjie Deng +3
Multi-step multimodal reasoning tasks pose significant challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), and finding effective ways to enhance their performance in such scen…
RetroLLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Retrieve Fine-grained Evidence within Generation
Xiaoxi Li, Jiajie Jin, Yujia Zhou +4
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable generative capabilities but often suffer from hallucinations. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers an effective solution by i…
Boosting Long-Context Management via Query-Guided Activation Refilling
Hongjin Qian, Zheng Liu, Peitian Zhang +2
Processing long contexts poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to their inherent context-window limitations and the computational burden of extensive k…